The Rhetorical Situation

I think that rhetoric is how someone uses language to manipulate their audience. When I say manipulate I don't mean that in a bad way. Rhetoric is how someone uses language to effectively appeal to their audience. The only time most people the word rhetoric is when someone says something about a rhetorical question. Even though rhetoric isn't a word that the majority of people will hear very often, it is always incorporated in everyday conversation. Without even knowing it people are always using rhetoric. My initial response to the question, what is a rhetorical situation, is a situation that involves rhetoric, but I've learned that that isn't a valid definition. I know that rhetorical situation is what else going in the text outside of the actual words. Their is a lot that can be learned from a text that doesn't necessarily come from the words themselves.